IRVINE – A panhandler familiar to police was arrested Sunday after shoppers and merchants in the West Park Plaza called police. Officers went to the center in the 3700 block of Alton Parkway around noon after receiving calls about a drunken man asking for money, Irvine police Lt. Tom Allan said. Police recognized the man as

Pinhole leaks in copper pipes have plagued thousands of South County homes in recent years, and now a judge’s ruling may force many homeowners to pay the bills.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Thierry P. Colaw this week tossed out a class-action lawsuit against local water districts over chemicals that homeowners say corrode cop

A small pest is spreading virtually unchecked throughout Orange County and infesting thousands of trees in Huntington Beach, UC Irvine and at least 19 sites monitored by OC Parks.
The culprit is a Southeast Asian beetle – the polyphagous shot hole borer – and a fungus it carries that have proven particularly troublesome since

Navy defeated Air Force, 3-2, on Friday afternoon to win the 2015 Beckman World Series championship.
Air Force needed to beat Navy twice to force a second game on Friday.
The teams are selected in a draft, by the senior players and were named after the U.S. armed forces.
Air Force jumped out to a 2-0 lead on doubles by Ma

Courtside takes on Deerfield
The Courtside Stingrays posted many solid swims in their meet against Deerfield on Saturday.
Leading the Stingrays were Michael Abshier, Claire Chow, Nicholas Huynh and Jenna Morley, who each won all of their races.
The 7-8 age group medley relay team of Keegan McCarthy, Ethan Han, Cai

A man suspected in several burglaries was arrested after he was spotted by an off-duty detective in Irvine.
On Thursdayabout 8:45 p.m., the detective saw 27-year-old Rory Scott Campbell walk into the locker room area of The Rinks skating facility on Barranca Parkway, according to Farrah Emami of the Irvine Police Department.
Camp

In an ongoing series, the Register will briefly profile Orange County’s startup scene, focusing on individual, pre-market or early market business concepts.
This week’s lineup includes: an app for contractors to help them with work orders and ordering parts; a video on demand platform that helps content creators make money; a

Tyler Maynard of Irvine recently passed his Eagle Board of Review for his Eagle Scout project. Maynard, 15, of Boy Scout Troop 675 in Irvine, built a 281-square-foot deck that surrounds a tree for Irvine Community Nursery School.
The school had reached out to prospective Eagle Scouts to build the deck in the preschoolers’ play yard

IRVINE – A few times a day, 6-year-old Rosemary Rodela checks on her pet frog, reaching into the aquarium on the bathroom counter to give it a gentle poke to reassure herself it hasn’t stopped breathing.
That’s how Rosemary has come to interpret her parents’ explanation of what happened to her 1-year-old sister, V

Affordable housing in Irvine?
Yes, it exists, said the city’s Housing Manager Mark Asturias told a packed room at the Bethel Korean Church during a community forum held Thursday.
The meeting was the first of three community gathering scheduled this summer on the topic of affordable housing in Irvine.
Irvine has 3,65

The words are familiar, but the cadence is straight New Orleans.
“E-i-e-i-o,” sings Ashli Christoval, each vowel of the familiar refrain of the classic children’s tune thick with syncopation.
Last week, the Irvine singer-songwriter and mother of two released “Bon Voyage,” her third album of children&

IRVINE – As a high school freshman, Tyler Kirkland went online and posted messages about killing himself.
On the first day of his sophomore year at Irvine High School, after he was “bullied and harassed throughout the entire school day, just as he was the previous school year,” 14-year-old Tyler left campus, locked hims

A former Orange County doctor who used his work computer to look at images of child pornography has surrendered his medical license.
Robert Harold Dolin, 56, pleaded guilty in January 2014 to one count of possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 41 months at a low-security prison in Lompoc. He is scheduled to be released Sept

A man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in Irvine last year was arrested Wednesday at his job at a Girl Scout camp. Matthew Joseph Hamm, 27, faces charges of rape, assault and domestic violence, Irvine police spokeswoman Farrah Emami said. He was arrested near Fairfax, where he worked as a cook at the camp. He was staying in staff